This weekend will see massive civic cleanup actions in three different continents and in 7 different countries. The cleanup actions are aiming to bring out altogether half a million volunteers, dedicating their day to clean up illegally disposed waste from land and sea on 20th, 21st and 22nd of April.

Let's Do It! Belgium team had a meeting on 13th of April and here is a video about that meeting, including a message from French team. Let's Do It! Belgium team is actively looking for new and active members and welcomes all, who want to be a part of the action in Belgium - the cleanup action day has been already set on 22nd of September 2012!

Cleanup-day "Limpar Portugal" was held in Portugal for a second time, on 24th of March. All of Portugal was involved in the clean up action. "When you were going around on the streets on 24th of March, you’d see a lot of volunteers in different ages cleaning up and collecting garbage," said one of the action initiators Alberto Ferreira.

Ecological movement from Guatemala, Pura Vida, has a simple yet genius solution for places which have illegal dumping problem and no recycling facilities. Instead of just piling it up as a landfill, you can build public houses for the community to use.

Nepal and Greece are two of the countries that have joined the LDIW project. Even the dates of the clean-up actions have been announced: Greece (29.04.2012) and Nepal (05.06.2012). How prepared are their teams so far?

Do It Together! – is a public all-russian action to get rid of trash. On October, the 8th the pilot cleaning in sub-Moscow area took place and further on the initiative would grasp the territory of the whole country.

In the next few weeks the announcement will be made and the entire country will begin preparations for the largest clean up in its history. Greece was not known for its volunteers and civic actions or for its environmental awareness before. But nowadays the situation has changed. In the last few years its people have come to witness the necessity of both.

This Saturday, 8th of October, a civic-led cleanup action in Surulere, Lagos is bringing together thousands of volunteers, to rid the streets of illegal garbage. This cleanup action is a pre-event for the global volunteer action uniting 100 countries next year.

Perhaps you have noticed there is an important weekend coming up. This weekend, we have two Cleanups: Brazil is doing the first sweep of city of Campinas on Sunday. Romania is having the second Cleanup, Let's Do It, Romania on Saturday!